2016 6th International Conference on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (ICASET 2016)

The Design of Automatic Temperature and Humidity Recorder

Chen Yu-jie1, a ,Liu Pei-xue1, b, Luo Jin-tao1, c, Xu Wen-xiu1, d
QingDao HuangHai College, Qingdao266427, China
a
chenyujie_cc@163.com,bytulpx@163.com,
c
1269329082@qq.com,d540362098@qq.com

Keywords ： Temperature and humidity, real-time monitor, 485 signal communication, Upper
computer

Abstract: Aiming at the problems that the traditional temperature and humidity recording manual
operation is low efficiency, put forward a design scheme of temperature and humidity automatic
alarm recorder. real-time monitor temperature and humidity sensors using single chip
microcomputer technology, after the data is collected and processed, the results is displayed on the
LCD screen, at the same time, transmit the data to PC for display through the RS485 serial
communication, also The design has the function of data record and historical data inquiry, the host
computer remote control and so on, when temperature and humidity exceeds user-set upper and
lower limits, the device will automatically alarm.

Introduction
Temperature and humidity measurement is an important part of the modern detection technology,
in order to ensure the quality of the products, saving energy and safety production and plays a key
role. Therefore, to ensure fast and accurately measuring technology and device for temperature and
humidity generally by various countries attention. With the development of communications
technology and computer technology, temperature and humidity measurement technology in Japan,
Netherlands, United States, Israel and other developed countries has been rapid developed. Now
foreign temperature and humidity measurement technology is moving towards the development of
high-tech direction, Network technology, remote sensing technology has been gradually integrated
with the production activities.
In recent years, China has also increased the research efforts in the temperature and humidity
measurement technology, Despite advances in technology, more humane, but there is not remote
control the working status of the equipment. This design in the original technical level, has made
the further improvement: 1, environmental parameters data processing with higher accuracy
requirements, ensure the goods in storage environment, increase the economic efficiency of
enterprises; 2, using low power components, the power consumption will be greatly reduced,
reducing the power consumption cost; 3, the adjustment of environment monitoring technology, not
only can observed the data in the main equipment on the site, but also observation the data in any
PC equipped with corresponding PC machine, The parameters of the main equipment, set command
to complete the monitoring and control of the combined, largely reduce manpower participation
process.

Overall System Design

The system is mainly composed of three parts, data acquisition device, control center, host
computer .（ the overall design diagram of the system see Fig. 1).

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control center

Fig.1 the overall design of the system

Controlled by MCU, the data acquisition terminal using temperature and humidity sensor
AM2321 to temperature and humidity data real-time acquisition and the collected data were
processed and displayed on the LCD screen, also through the RS485 serial communication would
be processed by the data to PC display, when the temperature and humidity exceeds the setting
upper and lower limit, the alarm device will be activated.

Hardware Design
The circuit design of data acquisition terminal

Power supply module

Indicating

1 Temperature
DC/DC voltage
and humidity
stabilizer
MSP430
2 Temperature
Reset circuit
and humidity

Crystal resonance
circuit
Fig.2 The system block diagram in figure 2 data acquisition

Mainly use the high precision temperature sensor, capacitive humidity sensing element, A/D
converter, signal amplifier and a high performance embedded microcontroller integrated consisting
of AM2321 temperature and humidity sensor to achieve the data collection. Through the amplifier
to collect the data signal stronger than normal, and the conversion of the collected data through the
A/D converter in a timely manner, so that the output digital signal is more anti-interference .
Data acquisition in the system block diagram as shown in Fig. 2, the smallest system consists of
DC/DC voltage stabilizer, reset circuit, MSP430, crystals circuit structure, etc.
Data display and alarm circuit design
The MSP430 as control center processor, using 2.8 inch alientek TFTLCD liquid crystal module
as the display unit, the control center alarm and prompt the user through the buzzer, the NPN triode
8050 as alarm circuit switch, when beep is a 3.3V high level，after the voltage division, the base

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electrode of the NPN transistors to obtain a control signal, at this time of the triode three terminal
voltage state collector > base > emitter, the triode is make the buzzer sounds, Similarly, when the
beep is low level, the buzzer does not ring.
Data display and alarm circuit diagram in Fig. 3.
TFTLCD
MSP430 Temperature and
Alarm module humidity module

Power supply module

Fig.3 Data display and alarm circuit module chart

SD card circuit design

Control center processor running FatFs system, the system directly mounts the SD card, the
operation to achieve the function of local records of the system. The
SD CARD
SD_CARD P4 SDCARD
9 NRF_IRQ
DATA2
1 SD_CS
CD/DATA3 VCC3.3
2 SPI2_MOSI
CMD
3

1
2
3
4
5
6
VSS
4
VDD
5 SPI2_SCK C28 1
2
3
4
5
6
CLK
6
VSS 7
DATA0 SPI2_MISO
8 NRF_CE 104
DATA1
NRF_CE
SPI2_MISO
SPI2_SCK
SPI2_MOSI
SD_CS
NRF_IRQ
10 GND
CD R28
R29 R30
R31
R32
11
GND 47K
47K 47K
47K
47K
12
WP
sd card VCC3.3

Fig.4 SD card interface is connected to the STM32 schematic diagram

FATFS systems support the size of 1 ~ 32 g SD card. SD card driver circuit as follows in Fig. 4, SD
card driver using SPI mode, and the SD card connect to the STM32 processor SPI2, to pull on the
control pin to ensure the reliability of communication.

Software Design
The design of the data acquisition terminal program
After acquisition terminal boot device is initialized, it is choose the measurement of temperature
and humidity one two road，than all the way began to normal data

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Start

Device
initialization

N Select measurement
mode TEMP

T&H Two
TEMP
T&H signsls
collection collection
N
Y N
Complete
collection?

Send to
coordinator
through GPRS

END

Fig.5 Data acquisition terminal program flow chart

acquisition, the data will be sent to the coordinator via GPRS once the acquisition is complete，
than recycle.The data acquisition terminal program flow chart is as follows Fig. 5.
PC software design
The friendly human-computer interaction environment is an important factor of the design. This
design uses the Delphi 7.0 provides the users with a vivid, intuitive and easy operation of the upper
machine.Delphi7.0 has directly compiled executable code, compile speed characteristics, powerful
data access and network development capability, high reusability, scalability, strong support for the
access rules are given to the client or server processing of the two programs .The temperature and
humidity automatic alarm recorder machine has simple structure, high reliability, low cost, and
update speed, system installation process simple, fast and convenient.
As show in the function, Temperature and humidity automatic alarm recorder PC can real-time
query real-time data of the specified recorder, To control the change of the field test data at any
time; Receive the alarming signal from the recorder, the first time to understand the scene situation
and timely deal with emergencies; Remote setting the alarm of the specified data recorder and the
alarm function of the specified recorder is opened or closed. It is can be widely used in the areas，
such as cold storage, food, storage of vaccines which temperature and humidity parameters need to
monitored.It can significantly improve the effect of management，make up the design only with
data collection and processing, but without remote control terminal in the market.

System Test
To deploy a PC machine with a host computer program, a development board with a liquid
crystal display screen, and a collection of 10 environmental parameters In a laboratory ，test the
data transmission rate, power consumption and communication distance of the system.
By statistics,it is 1-3 second for the host PC to sends command and receive the measurement
parameters from the 10 collector, with a success rate of 100%.

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The part of the collection and the results are shown in table 1, the test results show that the
system has high stability and security.
Table.1 part data collection table
Time Collector No. Temperature Humidity
10:23:05 01 2.0 43%
10:23:05 02 2.0 43%
10:23:06 03 2.0 43%
10:23:06 04 2.0 43%
10:23:07 05 2.5 43%
10:23:07 06 2.5 43%

Conclusion
The system has realized the real-time monitoring of temperature and humidity data, processing,
transmission, and the function of human-computer interaction. The whole system uses modular
design, hardware structure is simple and convenient wiring, software function is perfect, with
systematic upgrading, improve the efficiency of the workers, reduces the cost, will significantly
improve the traditional temperature and humidity data processing work.

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